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risk having to pay any fines? The answer to these questions must be yes in order for any CISO to trust
that their IT policy is effective and their data is safe.

Moreover, with such a significant volume of data to secure, real-time monitoring of the organization’s
information assurance posture is vital in order to efficiently and quickly react to an issue, and remediate
it. With real-time, contextual meta-data, any non-compliant traffic flows or policy changes can be swiftly
detected on a continuous basis to ensure the security posture is not affected. This means that a data
breach would not follow in the wake of a network breach, which is inevitable.

Removing the misdirected focus on protecting an organization’s network by implementing an information
assurance approach that is concerned with securing data, is the best way that the security industry can
move away from the damaging data breaches of the past. There really is no reason for these data
breaches to frequently feature in the media headlines; the technology needed to keep data secure is
ready and waiting for the industry to take advantage of. In order to avoid suffering the same fate as many
organizations who have not protected their data, companies must secure their most valuable asset - in
order to protect themselves and their reputation.

About the Author

Paul German is the CEO of Certes Networks. Paul is an experienced sales
focused CEO with over 20 years of experience in selling, marketing,
implementing and supporting networking and security technologies. He
joined Certes in January 2015 where he initially led the EMEA region growing
revenues 50% and establishing key relationships selling into multiple vertical
markets, on which further success will be scaled. Paul prides himself with
building great teams, knowing the right team will ultimately make the
company successful. With Paul’s broad background in sales and marketing,
operations, technology management, design and development he is able to
bring teams together and lead successfully, establishing a solid foundation
for future growth. Paul German can be reached online at Twitter:
@pwgerman, LinkedIn: Paul German and at our company website https://certesnetworks.com/

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